In the CuidArt Room of the Hospital de Dénia can already be seen until the next 26 in February, the XXI edition of the "Marina Alta Breastfeeding Photo Contest", organized by the Grup Nodrissa.
Visitors can see the 200 photographs that have been selected from a total of over 736 submitted for the contest. The chosen ones are those that are part of the contest.
The Photographic Contest of Breastfeeding Marina Alta, in which Dénia Hospital collaborates, aims not only to disseminate the art of breastfeeding, but to make this bio-cultural process part of our daily life, helping the generational transmission of mothers to daughters.
The objective of the exhibition is not only to disseminate the art of breastfeeding, but to make the process of breastfeeding part of everyday life.
In the Department of Health of Denia is very well established culture of breastfeeding from primary, with attention to pregnancy until formations breeding, through assistance dispensing midwives and nurses in maternity wards and hospitalization during childbirth .
Breastfeeding is a biocultural process that provides numerous benefits to both babies and their mothers. The WHO recommends that babies exclusively breastfeed for six months and, together with other foods, for at least two years.
